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: Austin is portrayed as an effortless "cool guy" who collects prehistoric tools and plays in a "dadcore" rock band. His casual friendship is so overwhelming to Craig that it literally induces nosebleeds [8].

Topic: Friendship & the x265 Ecosystem Prepared for: Interested Stakeholders (developers, researchers, content‑creation communities) Date: 10 April 2026

| Setting | Value | Why | |---------|-------|-----| | Video Codec | H.265 (x265) | Smallest file size | | Framerate | Same as source (or 30/60) | Keeps motion smooth | | Constant Quality (RF) | 18–22 (lower = better quality) | Balance size vs quality | | Preset | Slow or Medium | Better compression | | Audio | AAC 192kbps or Opus | Clear speech & music |

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: Austin is portrayed as an effortless "cool guy" who collects prehistoric tools and plays in a "dadcore" rock band. His casual friendship is so overwhelming to Craig that it literally induces nosebleeds [8].

Topic: Friendship & the x265 Ecosystem Prepared for: Interested Stakeholders (developers, researchers, content‑creation communities) Date: 10 April 2026 friendship x265

| Setting | Value | Why | |---------|-------|-----| | Video Codec | H.265 (x265) | Smallest file size | | Framerate | Same as source (or 30/60) | Keeps motion smooth | | Constant Quality (RF) | 18–22 (lower = better quality) | Balance size vs quality | | Preset | Slow or Medium | Better compression | | Audio | AAC 192kbps or Opus | Clear speech & music | : Austin is portrayed as an effortless "cool

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Yesterday I attended the "C# and Mvvm - Developing apps for all of Android, iPhone and Windows" event hosted by Stuart Lodge at Modern Jago. In preparation for the day I had the daunting task of setting up my Mac for cross platform development with Xamarin. While most of it was fairly straight forward and well documented, I came across a few gotchas worth blogging about.

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Pascal Arnould

He has over 20 years experience of implementing complex technology solutions across a number of sectors, and is a passionate advocate of Agile practices, continuous learning and engineering excellence.

Pascal worked at endjin from 2013 - 2015.

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